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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Flashmobs. Like Seriously, Still?

We'll, let's take a break from next things and look at a past thing for a change. This was a big thing for a while way back in 2003, at least it was if you were a complete prat. Why it's Flash mobs of course - the real life gathering of webiots to perform mainly successful attempts to disprove Darwin's theory of evolution.

Why do I bring this pointless idiocy up now. Well I was just sent a YouTube of one that happened barely two weeks ago in London. I thought we were past this shit now, but apparently it still goes on. Take a look at what happened at Liverpool Street Station on October 11th.

Now, I like to delude myself once in a while that as a species we have at least a miniscule attempt of doing something worthwhile before we're wiped off the face of the earth. Seeing that though, I know that optimism is misplaced. Frankly, the time has come to close the internet, scour the earth with fire and let the cockroaches have a go at evolving - they can't do any worse.

Facile, vapid and a nuisance for anyone in the vicinity - Flashmobs are still here. Just thought I'd point that out - now, back to MySpace. Oh.

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Posted by Dio Bach at 9:39 AM  

1 Comments:

Rob said...

Interesting clip - I've never seen a flashmob in full swing. The City can be a pretty staid place and it's kind of fun to see that happening I'd say! I'm sure a number of investment bankers trying to make their way home were suitably bemused.

(sorry for responding to an old post!)

12:11 PM  

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